Noodle-machine.



No. 775,152. PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904. A. F. P. STENZY.

NOODLE MACHINE.

AIPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 20, 1904.

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UNTTED STATES Patented November 15, 1904.

PATENT @PFICE.

AUGUST F. P. STENZY, OF BALTH'IORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO AIIECZYSLAV BARABASZ, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

NOODLE- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 775,152, dated November 15, 1904.

Application filed September 20,1904. Serial Ne 225,169. No model.

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Be it known that 1. AUGUST F. P. STENZY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore. in the State of Maryland. have invented the roller-scrapers. Fig. a is a detail view of the dough-strip diverters. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the machine. Fig. 6 is also an elevation of the front of the machine, but without the cutting-board, knife, and rotary cutters. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the knife. Fig. 8 shows two views of the rotary cutters.

The machine has two vertical sides A A, which are connected by rods (.4 a, forming a frame. A screw-clamp 11 is at the base to enable the machine to be secured to a table-top T. Two rollers C C are mounted one above the other between the sides. One or both of the rollers have wood core 0 and a metal face 1/ surrounding the core. In the present instance the lower roller only is thus constructed. The journals c of these rollers are in slots ('I formed in the sides. Normally the upper roller will rest upon the lower one; but said upper roller will be lifted slightly by the dough when the latter presses in the form of a thin sheet between said rollers. An adjustable journal-block is above the two journals of the said upper roller. This block is held down upon said journal by the end of a screw f, impinging upon said block. This screw presses through a boss 1 on the side of A scraper 71 for the upper roller in this iiistance is curved and has its scraping edge in contact with the lower surface of the said upper roller C to prevent any adherence of dough. This scraper secured in position 55 may be adjusted.

A series of rotary diskcuttcrs Z- are mounted on a square shaft Z". These disk cutters bear against the metal face (I of the lower roller C.

a special form of spacer. (Shown plainly in Fig. 8.) The spacer hasaV-groove around its periphery for a purpose presently to be described. The spacer is composed of two dishcenter in and a sloping or flared rim 1/1. These spacers are stamped into shape by dies, and a hole is in the flat center of each to ta kc on the shaft A". Two dish-pan shaped disks are placed Thus one of the flared rims m bears against one cutter-disk l, and the other flared rim bears against the next cutter-disk, and the two flared rims form the V-groovc alluded rolled dough into very slim strips, so as to make stringy noodles. The dough for noodles should first be rolled thin and then cut into very narrow or slim strips.

that the disk cutters are separated by very narrow spaces causes the narrow strips of dough to adhere between the perimeter cutting edges of two rotary cutters Z. and it has been a ditiicultinatter to devise a construction 95 i that would insure the release of these narrow g strips of dough. The V-groovcd spaces! and i the wire divertcrs having an angle bend 1/, as

liver the dough between the two rollers C. 5

Said scraper is a straight 60 side lug, and thereby the scraper is held and 5 These disks are separated from each other by 7 pan shaped sheet-metal disks each having a flat 75 on the shaft with their flat centers m in contact. 30

to, which works advantagcously in cutting 5 The fact that the dough is rolled thin and 9 shown, so that a prong takes into said V- grooves, is an efiicient device for releasing the thin dough strips and diverting them downward upon the cutting-table. 0. The wire diverters have their upper ends a clipped around a square shaft p, extending across between the two sides. These clipped upper ends are spaced apart on the shaft by rings also on the said shaft. The wires extend from their clipped ends downward, a wire taking in each space between the disk cutters 7a. The stems of the diverters bend partly under the disk cutters, and at the lower end each has an angle bend a, pointing downward, from which an end prong projects upward and takes into one of the said \I-grooves Z. The narrow strip of dough that will adhere in the space between the rims of two rotary cutters will be released by the prong projecting up from the angle bend a, and said dough strip will be diverted downward to the slanting cuttertable 0.

The knife 9 for cutting the dough strips into short lengths is shown in Figs. 1, 2, 5, and 7. The cutting edge q projects from a back 1 at right angles, and the blade has at each end a right-angled arm '2', which arms are fixed on a rock-shaft .9, one end of which passes through one of the said standards A. This projecting end of rock shaft has a knocker-arm t, and a spring it acts on said arm in manner to keep the knife Q raised from the slanting table 0, with the lower edge of which when the knife is depressed it has a shearing cut, as seen in F ig. 2. The shaft 71:, on which the rotary cutters are mounted, has its ends projecting through the said standard A and is provided with a pinion o and a knocker, consisting of spuds or pins w on a head w. The end of the knocker-arm t has position in the circular path of the said pins w. As the said shaft and head revolve, the pins w press the end of the knocker-arm t, and thereby depress the knife q and cause it to come down along the lowermost edge of the slanting table 0 and cut the dough strips,

which will fall below into a dish or receptacle. (Not shown.) The moment a pin '20 passes the knocker-arm t the latter will be drawn back by the spring a, which retains the knife.

The ends of the roller-journals have cogwheels y y, which are in gear, and the pinion e, which drives the rotary cutters, gears with one of said cog-wheels. A crank-arm is attached to the journal 6 of the lower roller and drives the machine.

From the description here given the operation of the machine will be understood.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A noodle-cutting machine having doughpressing rollers, C, G; a series of rotary disk cutters, 7r, mounted on a shaft; spacers also on the shaft and separating the disk cutterseach spacer having a \!groove, Z, around its periphery; and a wire diverter in each space, said wire having a down-pointing angle bend, a, and an end prong projecting therefrom up into the said \I-groove, as set forth.

2. The herein-described machine for cutting noodles comprising the two rollers, (J, C, mounted one above the other and in contact; an upper inclined dough-table, G, at one side of said rollers to deliver dough between the rollers; a lower inclined cutting-table, 0, on the opposite side of said rollers; a scraper, 2', bearing against the side of the lower roller, 0', and between it and the high side of the said inclined cuttingtable; a series of rotary disk cutters, k, bearing against the said lower roller; wire dough-diverters between the said rotary disk cutters; and a knife, 9, having an up-and-down motion and making shearing cut with the lower edge of said inclined table, as

- shown.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AUGUST F. P. STENZY. Witnesses:

CHAs. B. MANN,

FELIX R. SULLIVAN. 

